First Nations Movies

  • 2024
    Our Maternal Home

    Our Maternal Home

    Our Maternal Home

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    Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins to...

    Our Maternal Home
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid

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    Profile of the Haida artist Bill Reid

    Canada Vignettes: Bill Reid
  • 2013
    Snare

    Snare

    Snare

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    Snare
  • 1980
    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

    Nose and Tina

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    Nose and Tina are a couple in love. The film captures the domestic details of their life together and documents their hassles with work, money and...

    Nose and Tina
  • 2004
    Two Worlds Colliding

    Two Worlds Colliding

    Two Worlds Colliding

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    This documentary chronicles the story of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man who was dumped by two police officers in a barren field on the outskirts of...

    Two Worlds Colliding
  • 2019
    Gitigaan: Spotted Earth

    Gitigaan: Spotted Earth

    Gitigaan: Spotted Earth

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    Anishinaabe elders of the Curve Lake First Nation reflect on the history, decline, and return of the traditional food gardens that connect their...

    Gitigaan: Spotted Earth
  • 1984
    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

    Incident at Restigouche

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    Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation...

    Incident at Restigouche
  • 2014
    Blown Away

    Blown Away

    Blown Away

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    Cyclone Tracy 40 years on, exploring the myths and revealing new perspectives on one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history.

    Blown Away
  • 1944
    People of the Potlatch

    People of the Potlatch

    People of the Potlatch

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    The Indigenous peoples of northern British Columbia still hunt and fish, using a combination of traditional ways and modern equipment and techniques...

    People of the Potlatch
  • 2022
    The Pretendians

    The Pretendians

    The Pretendians

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    Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates how — and why — Indigenous identity, culture and art are being appropriated by those...

    The Pretendians
  • 2003
    Is the Crown at war with us?

    Is the Crown at war with us?

    Is the Crown at war with us?

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    In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of...

    Is the Crown at war with us?
  • 2016
    The Price of the Prize

    The Price of the Prize

    The Price of the Prize

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    First Nations fight to end grizzly bear trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. The Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai'xais and Gitga'at...

    The Price of the Prize
  • 1924
    Felix Goes West

    Felix Goes West

    Felix Goes West

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    Felix gets into trouble with a tribe of Indians out west, and is chased by a bear.

    Felix Goes West
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

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    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
  • 1992
    Kecia: Words to Live By

    Kecia: Words to Live By

    Kecia: Words to Live By

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    The first (native) First Nations girl to come forward as HIV-positive in the early 90's. The film chronicles her travels across Canada delivering...

    Kecia: Words to Live By
  • 1971
    Christmas at Moose Factory

    Christmas at Moose Factory

    Christmas at Moose Factory

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    A study of life at Christmastime in Moose Factory, an old settlement mainly composed of Cree families on the shore of James Bay, composed entirely of...

    Christmas at Moose Factory
  • 2019
    Now Is the Time

    Now Is the Time

    Now Is the Time

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    When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s...

    Now Is the Time
  • 2016
    KONELĪNE: our land beautiful

    KONELĪNE: our land beautiful

    KONELĪNE: our land beautiful

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    Set deep in the traditional territory of Tahltan First Nation, Northern British Columbia’s Red Chris gold and copper mine is the backdrop to a...

    KONELĪNE: our land beautiful
  • 1986
    Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child

    Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child

    Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child

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    This short documentary is a moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. Taken from his home at the...

    Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
  • 2012
    Smoke Traders

    Smoke Traders

    Smoke Traders

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    Smoke Traders is an inside look at the world of the Mohawk tobacco trade.

    Smoke Traders